Monday, February 27, 2017

On Saturday, Tom Perez,
the former Obama administration secretary of labor, was elected as chair of the
Democratic National Committee, and the task now before him is to rapidly renew
the party after a devastating 2016 election cycle that saw Republicans take
control of the executive and legislative branches of the federal government and
most statehouses. Joining me today to
talk all about the new DNC Chair and what the Party needs to do moving forward,
and a whole lot more is John Nichols,
The Nation’s national-affairs
correspondent.

Since its inception, no
policing tactic has been more controversial than “stop and frisk,” which allows
police officers to stop, question, and frisk anyone on the streets they view as
potential suspects. The tactic was even
mentioned in the first Presidential debate with Trump insisting that the tactic
was constitutional and had saved thousands of lives in New York City and
Clinton noting that a federal court had declared the practice unconstitutional,
and stating that it was ineffective and that we need to pursue other strategies
to reduce urban crime. In their new book
Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic Michael D. White and Henry F. Fradella
offer the first history and analysis of this tactic, and argue that there is a disconnect between
our everyday understanding and the historical and legal foundations for this
policing strategy which was first ruled constitutional in 1968, and Henry F. Fradellajoinsme on the show today to talk all about
the book, the tactic, and what can be done to reform the way we police our
streets.

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